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Scholarship, Advocacy & Activism: Duke Faculty Perspectives on Human Rights - Ellen McLarney
Professor Ellen McLarney discusses her research on women's rights, freedom and democracy in Islam.
Published 3 weeks ago
Banu Gökariksel on Muslim Veiling
Interview with Banu Gökariksel at the Duke/UNC Mideast Consortium "ReOrienting the Veil" conference. Topics included themes around identity, fashion and politics of Islamic veiling,including in Turkey, Indonesia and Europe and halal makeup. Interview by Julie Poucher Harbin, Editor, ISLAMiCommentary.
Published 1 month ago
'Faith, Fear and Freedom': A Discussion on North Carolina's Growing Muslim Population
Documentary Screening and Discussion, 7:30p-9p, April 18, 2013! Tweet hashtag #NCMuslims.
WRAL-TV Emmy award winning anchor David Crabtree will moderate the panel discussion that follows the screening of "Faith, Fear and Freedom" (http://www.wral.com/wral-documentary-faith-fear-and-freedom/11842897/), and audience members are encouraged to ask questions.
Panelists include Muslim Chaplain at Duke University Abdullah Antepli, Amna Baloch (local community member born and raised in Raleigh, NC), UNC-Chapel Hill Islamic Studies Professor Carl Ernst, and Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (Duke-UNC-RTI) David Schanzer.
This event is sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Durham County Library, and WRAL-TV, and made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Co-sponsors include the British Council's Our Shared Future project, Center for Muslim Life (Duke) , Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations (UNC-Chapel Hill) , DeWitt Wallace Center for MEDIA & DEMOCRACY, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (Duke), Sanford School of Public Policy (Duke) , and Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (Duke/UNC/RTI).
Background: There have been Muslims living in North Carolina for decades. In fact, some of the very first Muslims in NC were African slaves who were brought here in the 18th century.
Today, there are an estimated 26,000 Muslims in North Carolina. That's less than one percent of the state's population, but also reflects a 30 percent increase in the number of Muslims living in NC over just ten years. Some are converts, but most come from other states and other countries.
Published 2 months ago
Local Imams: Challenges and the Opportunities of the Times
A roundtable discussion with local Imams for the North Carolina Area.
Sponsored by Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Published 4 months ago
Schanzer, Read in Documentary on N.C. Muslims
Duke professors Jen'nan Read and David Schanzer are featured in a WRAL TV documentary "Faith, Fear and Freedom" on Muslims in North Carolina. Find comments by Read at 7:09 and 17:32; Schanzer comments at 18:00 and 21:02. The documentary was produced by Clay Johnson, a lecturer at the Sanford School.
Posted 5 months ago
Egyptian Presidential Election Preview
In a live webcast Friday, June 15, five Duke scholars currently in four different countries discussed the significance of the Egyptian presidential runoff election, scheduled for June 16-17.The election pits competing visions for the future of the fledgling democracy during a time of political instability. The contest has Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi competing against Ahmed Shafik, a former prime minister under past president Hosni Mubarak.
The participants were:
-- Mbaye Lo in Cairo, Egypt. Lo is an assistant professor of the practice in Asian and Middle Eastern studies. He teaches Arabic and recently conducted a study of the role of Al Jazeera Arabic writers during the Arab Spring. He is currently leading a group of Duke students in the DukeEngage Egypt civic engagement summer program (read the group's blog).
-- Shalom Goldman in Israel. Goldman is a professor of religion. His teaching and research interests include modern Hebrew language and biblical themes in Jewish and non-Jewish literature. He regularly comments on current events in the Middle East in the magazine Religion Dispatches as well as on blogs.
-- Abdeslam Maghraoui in Paris, France. Maghraoui is an associate professor of the practice in political science and author of "Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922â1936" (Duke University Press). His research and teaching address questions about democracy, governance, transparency and political ethics in North African and the Middle East.
-- David Schanzer in Durham. Schanzer is director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, and an associate professor of the practice at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy. His area of expertise is emergency preparedness, homeland security, civil liberties and strategies for combatting terrorism.
-- Nadia El-Shaarawi in Durham. El-Shaarawi is a postdoctoral research associate at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics whose current scholarship examines the mental health and well-being of Iraqi refugees in Cairo.
Moderating the conversation was Azeddiine Chergui, an Arabic instructor at Duke and affiliated faculty member of the Duke Islamic Studies Center.
The online event was part of Duke's "Office Hours" interactive webcast series, which allows members of the Duke community and others to engage with faculty in their areas of expertise. Co-sponsoring the webcast was the Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project.
Published 1 year ago
The Great Debates: Islamic Debate
NEW YORK, December 8, 2011 — In the latest event in Asia Society's Great Debates series, Duke University's Ebrahim Moosa leads a panel discussion on Shari'a and Islamic law with Imam Khalid Latif, Executive Director of the Islamic Center at NYU and Imam Shamsi Ali, Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York. (1 hr., 33 min.)
Posted 1 year ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Sherman Jackson
Sherman Jackson of the University of Michigan was one of the speakers in a colloquium, "Human Rights in Islam: The Politics of Cultural Transformation," held in February 2011 at the John Hope Franklin Center. His talk was "Western Muslims and Human Rights."Published 2 years ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Closing Panel
Discussions by prominent scholars in human rights and Islam, from a February 2011 colloquium sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center.Published 2 years ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Opening Remarks
Discussions by prominent scholars in human rights and Islam, from a February 2011 colloquium sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center.Published 2 years ago
Imam Abdullah Antepli Discusses Islam in the U.S
A conversation between Iman Abdullah Antepli and Samuel Wells, Dean of Duke Chapel.Published 2 years ago
David Schanzer: 'Strengthening America’s Security'
David Schanzer, an associate professor of the practice for public policy at Duke's Sanford School, participates in a discussion titled “Strengthening America’s Security: Identifying, Preventing and Responding to Domestic Terrorism,” which was cosponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the National Security Network.Posted 2 years ago
Does a Lack of Islamic Literacy Fuel Extremism? - Ebrahim Moosa
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/20/The_Rise_of_Intellectual_Reform_in_IslamEbrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, attributes the fundamentalism of extreme Islamists to a lack of literacy about Islamic law and tradition. He says very few resources are put into studying and understanding the historical context of Sharia, giving way to "demagoguery and rhetoric."
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In a world increasingly governed by ideals of democracy and pluralism, this program explores both the evolution of religion and freedom in Islam -- focusing on the recent rise of intellectual reform and the role of the religious intellectual -- as well the debate surrounding these changes.
Featuring Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School; Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University; and Abdulkarim Soroush, philosopher, reformer, Rumi scholar, and former professor at the University of Tehran. Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, moderates the discussion. - CUNY
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics, and theology. Moosa is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American Academy of Religion's Best First Book in the History of Religions (2006) and editor of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2005 to pursue research on the madrasas, Islamic seminaries of South Asia.
Published 3 years ago
Islam & the Media Class Video: Appearance is...
Duke class collaborates with local Muslims to examine portrayal of Islam in the media. The video and blog posts at undercovermuslimgirl.blogspot.com emerged from a collaboration with a Duke course on Islam and the media in spring 2010.
 The idea for the class came from Phil Bennett, who as a veteran journalist and former managing editor of the Washington Post. He felt something was missing from media coverage of Muslim Americans. Bennett joined the faculty at Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy fall 2009, and decided to teach a course on Islam and the media with senior research associate Wendy Ewald.
 After spending the first part of the semester studying how major news organizations approach coverage of Muslim Americans after 9/11, Bennett and Ewald’s class collaborated with the Islamic Center of Raleigh and Al-Iman School to create original media projects exploring different facets of Muslim American life. Groups of Duke students worked with eighth grade students from the Al-Iman School, and teenagers and women from the center on a variety of projects including books, blogs, photos and video. Learn more.
Published 3 years ago
Bruce Lawrence on Teaching Islam
Duke University professor Bruce Lawrence discusses understandings, and misunderstandings, of Islam in an "Office Hours" webcast interview April 30, 2010. Learn more at http://jhfc.duke.edu/disc/Published 3 years ago
